Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

晩御飯に夫が特製のお肉とじゃがいもゴロゴロカレーを作ってくれたので、寒いけれどみんな元気です。

There no longer exists a shred of political or moral difference between an armed DHS agent and a British redcoat on the streets of Boston or Lexington in 1775. The DHS man is worse, actually, as he has volunteered for service against his neighbor, is paid handsomely, and could quit any time.

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Reactionaries reading Tolkien

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Watching Dolly Parton's A Smoky Mountain Christmas for the first time as an adult, and it's now clear to me that the reason there are so many orphans in this tiny mountain town is that the witch-woman has been straight up murdering their parents.

Meticulously compiling a list of my favorite YouTube videos in advance of the New Year so I can be the first to comment, "who here in 2026 🙌"

interrupting the ghost of christmas present mid-lesson to expound on the national security implications of his remote viewing abilities

Brought in the mail after clearing the snow off my parents driveway. This is the kind of horseshit they get in the mail all the time nowadays. Normie Republicans (and former Rs) may not have known who Charlie Kirk was before, but they sure are familiar with him now.

Emmet Otter opens with a song making fun of a fat woman and her comically large bathing suit??? Watching this beloved children's Christmas classic for the first time. Nephew finds Grandma Otter's big bathing suit indeed very funny. (Shaking my head so everyone knows I disagree.)

The first cookie plate of the year always makes me feel like such an ungrateful snob, because imo most Christmas cookies fall squarely into "kind of you to go to the effort, but I'd rather you hadn't” territory.

going back to 2025 from 2055 with an old farmers almanac to pull a biff tannen

Yes! And more than just facts, stories can impart moral lessons through their structure, even when they're not obviously didactic. Characters model behavior, and the story consequences subtly teach us whether it was wise or unwise, etc. That is mostly absent from unscripted/disjointed entertainment.

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

When you fail a saving throw vs charisma

vacuuming the house but really hot rodding it: drifting around corners, popping wheelies, doing a kick-flip over the ottoman

I've driven through this place hundreds of times, but for the rest of my life I won't be able to pass without remembering the words of this contemptible asshole Republican county chairman: "We’re not going to sell out our birthright for a bean burrito."

My sensibilities are pretty tenderhearted towards small animals even though I work on a farm, but I have to admit it is regrettably very amusing sometimes what mean little shits cats can be. Shaking my head the whole time so everyone knows I disagree etc.

Yes! I've considered this a possibility since reading 13th century monk Bartholomaeus Anglicus' description of cats. He's clearly amused by their behavior, as no doubt humans at the time of domestication were. The entertainment value is not entirely separate from their usefulness as mousers,

the audio book engineer when it's time for her to record the RFK Jr. stuff

we've given out the $2000 checks in the form of hawking radiation. over the next trillion years you will be able to reconstruct the checks by observing the hawking radiation spectrum outside of the blackhole where the East Wing used to be

All else aside, it's utterly absurd that our system gives so much power to some chucklefuck Senator from Wyoming, a state with under 600k people. I should never have to know the name of anyone from that state. I should never see them on the news. They should be completely nationally irrelevant.

it would be darkly funny if each of Fetterman’s health episodes gave him a new form of bad politics, like, now he’s super pro-Palestinian but hates public schools

The rambling proclamations of a mad king with the power to end all life on earth sandwiched between ads for scam bedding and Liberty Catheters.

Rewatching Star Trek: Generations and I'm not too proud to admit that I'd get one-shot by the Nexus. Picard: "I need your help." lolnope. "I want you to leave the Nexus with me. We--" Fuck off out of my fantasy Captain or I'm gonna go get the axe and crack that beautiful bald head like an egg.

doing the inverse of the “comic book hidden in a newspaper thing” where I rig my phone to make loud sports gambling noises but I’m actually reading Jane Austen

Playing "10 Hours of Low Pitched Metal creaks and stress Groans" on a loop as the soundtrack to the government shutdown.

Funny animal videos were like one of the few purely good things about the internet and now half of them are obviously fake and the other half aren't as enjoyable because you're wondering if they might be too.

"Who wants it more?" is by no means the only question, but it is a fundamental one.

There’s a whole mass of people who have a psychological need to write off anyone with power as corrupt in order to justify their own disengagement.

1. invent extremely powerful new distributed consensus-forming mechanism called, for some reason, "social media" 2. put it in everyone's pockets 3. pay an army of PhDs high-six-figures to make it more addictive 4. strange new distributed consensuses form

“Why have countries that have moved an ever-growing share of social interactions into a frictionless online space, where political claims are validated or invalidated by popularity alone, seen a commensurate rise in extreme political factions driven by emotional catharsis and decoupled from reality”

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

“Destroying the White House to build a gaudy monument to your own vanity during a shutdown” is a situation where the bad act and the symbolic representation of the bad act slam into each other like particles in the Large Hadron Collider

Much as the Civil War proved all Southern virtue could be reduced to rapine white supremacy, the Trump administration has proven that "family values" reduce down to bloodsoaked paterfamilias

Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

At @theunpopulist.net, I'm launching a new project about how our institutions failed so completely and what a constitutional reconstruction should look like. Because the aftermath of this catastrophe will be here sooner rather than later. 1/

we, as a society, don't talk enough about how the aliens in TNG S4E16 "Galaxy's Child" kinda looked like big uncrustables

*hits joint* What if like, the government just never re-opens.

Me and the homies stroking the silkiest beards imaginable and watching some episodes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994) - Fansubs by @hanzhonglang.bsky.social

We're all stuck in a car racing towards the edge of a cliff and these mfers just slapped the TURBO button lmao